YWCA Membership Luncheon and Week Events Preview
The April membership luncheon at Adams Memorial Building features speaker Mrs. Mabel Burnett on Juvenile Delinquency with high school octet music. Committees organize the program for the week including club meetings, dances for soldiers, and May Day breakfast at Zimmerman cabin. Reservations due by Monday noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams Memorial
Mabel Burnett
Girl Scouts
Monnoon
Mesdames Gaston Johnson
Robert Cottam
A Caldwell, Jr
Sedgefield
Zimmerman Cabin
May Zimmerman
Maude Burriws
Dot Hiatt
Ralph Norman
Florence Nightingale Club
D. R. Parker
Births Rhythm of newborns in Guilford area noted
Mr and Mrs James Smith of Point Route 4 announce the birth of a daughter Myra Gail on December 1 at Guilford General Hospital. Several other local families report births including Ruth Scism April 11, Ivey Wayne Bodenheimer April 22, Sarah Lee Hedgecock April 10, Linda Eva Franklin April 20, Thomas Alec Myers Jr April 20 in Pasadena Maryland, Wayne Lee Hatchell April 17, Juanita Jane Gibbons April 20, Tony Lee Yokeley April 19, all at area hospitals or homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Smith
Point Route 4
Myra Gail
Guilford General Pital
L. E. Scism
Ruth
Burrus Me 1 Hospital
Kernersville
Frank Bodenheimer
Ivey Wayne
Guilford General Hospital
Hedgecock
O. J. Hedgecock
Homestead Avenue
Sarah Lee
R. L. Franklin
West Green
Linda Eva Franklin
Burrus Memorial Hospital
THOS
Hatchell
Gordon Hatchell
Jamestown
Wayne Lee
Pranklin
Roland L. Franklin
West Green Street
Franklin
Mary Moore Franklin
A. G. Yokeley
North Main Street
Tony Lee Yokeley
W. C. Smith
Route One
Bobby Carson
J. B. Shoffitt
Marianna
Ark
Villa Jo
James D. Thornbrough
W. FE. Thornbrough
English Street
High Point
Miss Shoffitt
T. A. Peetrall High School
Boyd's Business College
Washington, D. C
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Mr. Thornbrough
Claremont High School
Hickory
George Washington University
Washington, D.C
U. S. Naval Hospital
Quantico
Navy
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Denver Youth Confesses to Kiss Grab in Spring Day Incident
Two girls told police headquarters a youth grabbed and kissed them as they crossed the street. Police Capt. E. S. Davis identified a 17-year-old who admitted the act saying the spring day inspired him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
E. S. Davis
Yeggs Loot Sunset Park Grocery Safe In Heist
Wilmington reports say an overnight break in at Sunset Park Grocery Store yielded a 500 pound safe and over $1,000 in cash plus several hundred dollars in war bonds. The robbers entered Thursday night and fled with the spoils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Yeggs
Sunset Park
A Poem for Easter
Gertrude Cook pens a reflective Easter poem from Emerywood High Point North Carolina asking for divine help to avoid bitterness and self pity. The speaker seeks Christ’s gentleness to transform hurt into sympathy and wiser pity for those bearing heavier crosses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Cook Page
Emerywood
High Point, N.C
Easter Week Travel and Local Visits Highlight High Point Notes
Local society pages list Clyde Chernault heading to Atlanta for the Southeast ern Shoe Convention then to St. Louis for about ten days. Various residents visit relatives in Portsmouth, Denton, Merced, and Shreveport, with returns from Marion and Washington. Attendees include Mrs. Cora Yatel, Mrs. G. T. Beck, and Ensigns Thompson and Ferguson visiting or leaving after time with friends and family.
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Clyde Chernault
Quality Shoe
Atlanta
St. Louis
R. C. Myers
Washington, D. C
High Point
Madame Koo to Lecture Thursday at Woman's College
Mme Wellington Koo, wife of China's ambassador to Great Britain and League of Nations representative, will lecture Thursday evening at The Woman's College Aycock auditorium. The noted Chinese figure is in America with her sons at Columbia University and tours the United States to discuss China's war and peace aims before returning to London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Mme
Wellington Koo
Woman's College
At & O'Clock
Aycock
China
Great Britain
League of Nations
Koo
Europe
Asia
America
Columbia University
London
Hen in Car Triggers Short Circuit After Trip
Matt Thoma drove into Irvin Muchow’s garage and complained about lights not shutting off. Muchow opened the hood and found a leghorn hen sitting in the splash pan, apparently dislodging a wire. After removing the hen, an egg was found. Separately, men aboard the submarine Squalus read aloud On The Bottom during a rescue tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Donatus
Matt Thoma
Irvin Muchow
Muchow
Squalus
Ration Book 3 to arrive by June in grab bag form
OPA announces Ration Book 3 will be mailed in June. It will be a grab bag book containing stamps for meat canned goods sugar coffee and shoes. WPB warns pipe cleaners are vanishing due to critical metal content and tobacco outlook is improving with more Burley tobacco available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty MacDonald
NEA
Washington
OPA
WPB
Food Production and Distribution Administration
Nhat
Nine boys ordered to weed garden after potato raid
In Aurora Illinois nine boys who dug up 15 rows of potatoes in Ira Stakesbury’s garden were brought before Police Magistrate Lambert M Ochsenschlager. Each boy was ordered to spend two hours weeding the garden at times when his services would be needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurora
Ira Stakesbury
Lambert M. Ochsenschlager
Stakesbury
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Women's
Madeline Hoover
YWCA
Smyra Gail Smith
Scism
Daughter
van Bureau Avenue
Perkinson
110 N. Main
Veggs
Gover
Clover Brand
Leo Wilson
Portsmouth
EF. Green Street
Bobby and
Jackie Sykes
Mrs
Lindsay Sykes
Denton
Karl Shepard
Merced
Calif
Matt Wall
Greenway Drive
Cora Yatel
Wesley Place
Shreveport
New Orleans
Robert M. Reindollar
E. FE. Sensenbach
Elmer Sensenbach, Jr
Ronnie
Baltimore
Mary White Weathers
East
Russell Street
Marion
Herbert Luquer
Arlan A. Hudson
Charliesheffield
Meredith Street
Mr. Hudson
Ray Hudson
Lexington
G. T. Beck
Charleston, S. C
George Haralson
Roland Park Avenue
Felix Taussig
Sheraton Hotel
New York
Eeee
Roy Conrad
Charlotte Memorial Hospital
Campbell Street
Alice Scott
Clara Robertson
Virginia
Mrs. Scott
H. L. Seckler
K. O. Kearns
West State Street
The
Baptist
Pvt
Elmer O. Kearns
Newport, Ark
Glenn Kearns
Binghamton, N. Y
Thurlow Kearns
Henderson
Charlotte P. Hudson
Women's College of the University of North Carolina
Lillian Justice
Ray Thompson
Seattle
Wash
Theron Ferguson
Los Angeles
A. Lee Gibson
Oakwood Court
Jack Hunter Gibson
Charles Bray
Norma Page
Pittsburgh
B. Craven Page
Wesley Long Hospital
Laura Gunter
Oak Street
S. A. Gardner
Hamlet
Barney Ballard
Wadesboro
Clyde A. Corneilson
Lincoln
Neb
Pfe
U. S. Army Air Corps
John Barry
United States Navy
U. S
Madame Koo
War Bond
Quuiz
Gib Crockett
Treasury Department
Treasury
WSS
TOTA
U. 8
Treasury Dept
Naval Air Stations
Co Christi
Texas
Jacksonville
Fla
United States
King - Harris Pharmacy
Guilford County
Belk-Stevens Company
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